Posted on 12/04/2023 6:23:35 AM PST by Red Badger
The U.S. has provided Israel with large bunker buster bombs, among tens of thousands of other weapons and artillery shells, to help dislodge Hamas from Gaza, U.S. officials said.
The surge of arms, including roughly 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the Oct. 7 attack and has continued in recent days, the officials said. The U.S. hasn’t previously disclosed the total number of weapons it sent to Israel nor the transfer of 100 BLU-109, 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs.
The airlift of hundreds of millions of dollars in munitions, primarily on C-17 military cargo planes flying from the U.S. to Tel Aviv, shows the diplomatic challenge facing the Biden administration. The U.S. is urging its top ally in the region to consider preventing large-scale civilian casualties while supplying many of the munitions deployed.
“I made clear that after a pause, it was imperative that Israel put in place clear protections for civilians, and for sustaining humanitarian assistance going forward,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Dubai on Friday.
Some security analysts say the weapons transfers could undercut the administration’s pressure on Israel to protect civilians.
“It seems inconsistent with reported exhortations from Secretary Blinken and others to use smaller-diameter bombs,” said Brian Finucane, a senior adviser at the nonprofit International Crisis Group, and a former attorney-advisor at the State Department.
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“U.S. also urges Israel to limit civilian casualties”
...usually the case. In this case however...
I would reply:
We are limiting them........To every one who is there...................
Flying in a 1000000000 pounds of steel and explosives from the USA to Israel in a hurry may hamper our military’s ESG score. How many trees does algore need to plant now?
RATs are playing both sides of the fence because it is an election year.
Their natives are restless in so many ways. Black people are pissed off too because of the open borders replacing their minority status.
Which bring us to the fact that the RATS are going to pull another major FF stunt prior to the election in 2024.
Since Hamas has been indoctrinating the children in Gaza to hate Israelis, Jews in general, and the USA, the 70% figure is very reasonable. About half the population in Gaza are children. Hamas has ruled in Gaza for 16 years.
The ideology of Hamas is Islam. They openly say they love death and want to be martyrs.
Hmmmmm...........by the looks of that arms list, Biden is
smarting after getting a well-deserved Hebraic tongue lashing.
“Overcompensating” comes to mind.
Has to nail that Jewish vote.
Yet, as one FReeper posted, he’d still get 70% of the Jewish vote in 2024
<><>even if he flew the Nazi flag over federal buildings in downtown DC
<><>and personally supervised the operations of a Nazi concentration camp in Delaware
<><>with the acquiescence of reliable Del Dems (who never even knew they were voting for him).
..with 80% support for and participation with Hamas—there aren’t but a few “civilians”...
Israel has done everything it can to limit civilian casualties.
Israel has done everything it can to limit civilian casualties.
Civilian casualties are solely due to islam and its callous disregard for life and will continue even if Israel were to completely stop all military action.
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us” - Golda Meir.....................
Civilians had ample warnings stay at your own risk.
Biden is A-OK with confiscating weapons from innocent, law abiding citizens wanting to protect
their families, as he blankets foreign countries with tens of thousand of tax-financed weaponry.
According to an internal US govt list of the weapons described to
The WSJ, among the US arms Biden handed over to Israel include:
<><>some 57,000 artillery shells
<><>more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or “dumb” bombs,
<><>more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000 pound warhead bombs,
<><>around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs,
<><>approximately 3,000 JDAMs, which turn unguided bombs into guided “smart” bombs,
<><>BLU-109 bunker busters w/ 2,000 pound warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters.
How will the Wall St Journal act when John Kerry brokers the deal to give NUKES to his Inlaws in Iran???
The WSJ will react very positively to that, as they do to most globalist initiatives.
Did they even bother to urge Hamas to limit its use of civilians as human shields?
Wha t is a civilian in Gaza? The so called civilians are just as much a part of hamas as the people who openly admit it. If the people in Gaza are going to allow their government, who is hamas, to govern them in a manner that puts them at risk like this, then it is just as much their fault, if not more, than the jihadists themselves as they support them with money, equipment, munitions, and now their own bodies. If people want hamas out of there, then until the locals do to, it isn’t going to happen. It is the civilians’ fault they are in there and in charge. And if they think life is sweet while their representatives, hamas, do the repulsive things they do, then perhaps they need a little incentive to stop this thing. The ball is in their court.
wy69
Look in all directions foreign and domestic I note a US warship the “Gabrielle Giffords” of all names went through waters claimed by China and the Philippines this morning and made China angry.
Taiwan has an election on Saturday January 13th.
Al Gore wants to plant trees-———
Bill Gates wants to cut down 70 MILLION ACRES of trees-——
BOTH ARE IDIOTS
Needs to be a BILLBOARD at the UN.
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